Chapter 33: Igniting After-meal Conversation Among All Attentive Citizens
Regarding Commander Yang Sen’s interest,
Factory Director Li Dafu also began to put Zhou Wenhua’s instructions into action and stated them.
That was to give Commander Yang Sen three cars, plus one-fifth of their business operation quota here, to be handed over, paid monthly.
The condition was to protect their business, shops, and personnel here from being harmed or extorted by some local forces.
Regarding the money and benefits delivered to the door,
Yang Sen agreed without hesitation,
Anyway, what he lacks most now is money,
Although he has lost the ability to compete with Liu Xiang for dominance in the Sichuan region,
But he is not willing to be eliminated just like this, so he is also imitating and learning Liu Xiang’s approach, using the crash course system as the foundation, on one hand building new troops and forces for his own survival, on the other hand setting up institutions such as officer training corps, officer research classes, military academy, training corps, and cadet teams.
He also learned and imitated Liu Xiang’s practices, pulling all crash course personnel into his own classmates, relatives and friends, and acquaintances, transforming all these core members into his direct confidants or little brothers.
Then he also worked hard to cultivate his own elite old Sichuan Army, even building his own prestige and combat strength within his troops.
This is the deployment after withdrawing from the Sichuan region dominance battle, where he gathered the remnants and prepared to “dare” once more to seek survival.
And these deployments require a large amount of money to support,
So in the past month or so, his mind has been entirely troubled by money issues, even to the point of being distraught.
So now that a fat sheep like Zhou Wenhua suddenly came, he felt it would really be a waste not to slaughter it once.
So when Factory Director Li Dafu followed Zhou Wenhua’s instructions, sending cars and money again to obtain protection from Yang Sen’s troops, to conduct business trade on the opponent’s territory.
Commander Yang Sen nodded and approved without thinking.
And he was in a particularly good mood, having people set up a banquet to entertain Factory Director Li Dafu,
And Factory Director Li Dafu was the first to present the three fully assembled cars that his transport team had brought by sea route to Commander Yang Sen.
“Hiss! What a stylish car!”
“What foreign country was this car purchased from?”
“This car is simply better looking than all the cars I’ve seen!”
“Even foreigners’ cars aren’t this good looking!”
When Yang Sen saw the three cars that Zhou Wenhua self-produced and self-sold, his eyes lit up immediately, and he praised endlessly.
Originally, he hadn’t thought Zhou Wenhua would send such beautiful cars to him, and all three at once.
At first, he thought they were just sending some cheap cars,
But now, where are they cheap goods, they are stylish and good-looking ones.
Even better looking in appearance than foreigners’ cars.
“This is our boss’s automotive factory, self-produced and self-sold cars, not foreigners’ cars!”
“It has already been promoted on major newspapers, Commander Yang can take a look at the newspaper!”
Factory Director Li Dafu smiled and responded.
Regarding Zhou Wenhua’s self-produced and self-sold cars, he himself was quite surprised the first time he saw them.
Because he hadn’t thought his new boss could actually self-produce and self-sell cars with exteriors more stylish, trendy, and good-looking than foreigners’ cars, and with superior performance.
So after test-driving Zhou Wenhua’s domestic car, he fell in love with these cars that outperformed foreigners’ cars,
So now seeing Yang Sen’s surprised expression, he deeply related.
However, as the sociable Factory Director Li Dafu, he immediately brought his strengths into play, starting pleasant exchanges, initial acquaintance, and cooperation with Commander Yang Sen.
That evening, he not only attended Commander Yang Sen’s banquet, but also accepted the accommodation hotel arranged by the other party.
And after he and Commander Yang Sen parted,
Commander Yang Sen immediately had people investigate Zhou Wenhua’s background,
And collect all the news newspapers about Zhou Wenhua’s self-produced and self-sold cars for him to understand.
Although he accepted Zhou Wenhua’s benefits, it didn’t mean he wouldn’t have people investigate Zhou Wenhua’s background.
And after Factory Director Li Dafu and the group he brought checked into the hotel arranged by Yang Sen,
Factory Director Li Dafu didn’t go to sleep right away, but reviewed the entire process of meeting Commander Yang Sen today, eating the banquet, and dealing with him.
He was also analyzing Yang Sen’s personality, thinking about how to achieve better cooperative relationship with the other party in the future to complete Zhou Wenhua’s assigned tasks.
Besides these, he would also find ways to learn more about Yang Sen’s character from local people,
As the Art of War says, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win a hundred battles.
Interpersonal communication and business are the same.
Just as Yang Sen and Factory Director Li Dafu each harbored their own thoughts,
All practitioners in Shanghai’s automotive industry quickly saw the news newspapers reporting on the interviews with Zhou Wenhua’s automotive factory and its self-produced and self-sold cars.
Besides automotive practitioners, many citizens also saw these newspapers,
Because the front-page headlines of these newspapers and the photos of those new domestic car models were very eye-catching.
“Zhou Family’s ‘New Era Car’ factory, domestic cars self-produced and self-sold officially launched, they claim to develop the automotive industry to revitalize the domestic automotive industry, achieve self-produced and self-sold cars, and lead the domestic car trends!”
“Breaking news, Zhou Family domestic cars officially debut, unique styling, performance superior to foreigners’ cars! And most importantly, at one-third the price of foreigners’ cars, you can purchase them! Economical and value for money!”
“Nation’s first domestic car brand officially born in Shanghai, car styling stylish and trendy, superior performance, about to lead the national automotive industry trends!”
“Good news! Good news, domestic cars finally taking root in Shanghai, this is our country’s first automotive factory to achieve self-produced and self-sold domestic cars, the pioneering enterprise of our domestic car brands! The vanguard glory of our domestic automotive industry!”
“Our automotive industry has lagged behind foreigners by decades, today finally the first truly belonging to our countrymen appears, cheap priced, superior performance domestic car! And styling even more trendy and good-looking than foreigners’ cars! You’ll fall in love at first sight!”
“Truly unexpected, this year our domestic automotive industry finally welcomes the light of rise, finally has the first domestic car brand belonging to us, truly the pride of our countrymen!”
With the appearance of these newspapers,
Soon the streets and alleys of Shanghai were filled with newsboys shouting at the top of their voices, striving to sell newspapers for a living.
And accompanied by these young newsboys’ loud calls selling newspapers, more and more Shanghai citizens learned that Zhou Wenhua’s domestic car brand had finally completed the press conference and was officially on sale, cheaper than foreigners’ cars, with trendy, beautiful, and stylish styling.
Suddenly, it ignited the after-meal conversation topics of all concerned citizens.
